Kentucky
Kentucky primary: Five questions answered by NKY voters
Northern Kentucky had a lot of key races to keep an eye on during Tuesday night’s primary as GOP incumbents were challenged in nearly every race.
In Boone County, 12.64% of voters cast a ballot. In Kenton County, 9.65% of voters showed up while Campbell County had a 10.39% turnout.
This is how they voted:
Did the man accused of strangling a teen win?
No! Republican Terry Hatton won with more than 80% of the vote. He’ll take on Democrat Matt Lehman in the general election this fall.
Hatton was up against Republican Brian Ormes in the open state House seat in District 67, which includes the northwest part of Campbell County.
Ormes made headlines in April after he was charged with felony first-degree strangulation and misdemeanors for menacing and fourth-degree assault. The charges stem from an incident at a Walmart where he allegedly confronted a 17-year-old after a ball nearly hit his son.
More: Kentucky Republican candidate arrested on strangulation charge
What happened to the liberty incumbents?
The so-called liberty candidates, who are part of a more conservative branch of the Republican party, won big election night – all the incumbents will be back on the ballots.
A new crop of Northern Kentucky candidates took on mainstream Republicans during the 2022 GOP primary and ousted three of them. The liberty candidates often oppose COVID vaccines, support book bans, and are determined to oust what they call “RINOs,” Republicans in name only.
Here are the results for those two races:
- State Rep. Steve Doan, R-Erlanger, beat candidate Diane Brown with 77% of the vote in District 69, which includes parts of Kenton and Boone counties. Doan also ousted longtime Republican Adam Koenig in the 2022 primary with 54% of the vote.
- Incumbent state Rep. Marianne Proctor, R-Union, beat Republican Christopher Pavese with 76% of the vote in District 60, a horizontal slice through the middle of Boone County. Proctor ousted mainstream Republican incumbent Sal Santoro, who served for more than a decade, in the 2022 primary.
Who had the closest race?
Republican incumbent Kim Moser eked out a victory over GOP challenger Karen Campbell, a liberty candidate. Unofficial results showed Moser won with 51% of the vote, just a 71-vote margin Tuesday night.
That isn’t enough to mandate an automatic recount in the state, which requires one if final results are closer than 0.5%. However, Campbell can request a recount.
Neither candidate made public statements about the race online Tuesday night.
Who won the ugliest race in NKY
Republican T.J. Roberts, of Burlington, crushed former state House Rep. Ed Massey in the primary Tuesday night with 77% of the vote. Roberts will be the GOP state House District 66 candidate, which includes northern Boone County.
“It is a remarkable thing what can happen when people come together and actually fight to put their districts first,” Roberts said Tuesday night, thanking U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie and others for supporting his first-time race for office.
He’s going up against Democrat Peggy Houston-Nienaber in November.
More: GOP candidate T.J. Roberts defeats Ed Massey after nasty primary race in NKY
Who won the empty state Senate seats?
State Rep. Steve Rawlings is now set to be a state Senator. Rawlings, a more conservative liberty candidate, ousted two-time incumbent Ed Massey in the 2022 primary.
He beat Duane Froelicher – a former Florence city councilman – with 77% of the vote Tuesday night.
No Democrat is running in the race in November.
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First-time political candidate Matt Nunn, of Sadieville, beat Julia Jaddock, of Georgetown, with 64% of the vote in District 17, which includes the southern part of Kenton County, Grant and Scott counties, and the northwest corner of Fayette County.
He’ll face Democrat Kiana Fields in the general election.
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The Brooklyn Nets have developed their teams through a number of strategies over the decades, and their front office has put together considerable success through the NBA draft. Many of the franchise’s best players have joined the Nets either by being selected directly in the annual draft or through trades made on that day.
Moreover, it is not only the star players who have been acquired by the Nets through the draft. Several prominent alumni have been selected by the team each offseason during this annual event, with certain colleges being more prominently represented than others. An analysis of the players from different schools reveals that both prestigious programs and smaller institutions have contributed top talent to the Nets’ roster over the years.
So without further ado, let’s take a look at every player who has been drafted by the Nets out of Kentucky State University.
Gerald Cunningham – forward
Draft year and position: fifth round (first pick, 89th overall), 1977 NBA Draft
Seasons at Kentucky State University:
Seasons played with Nets: did not make the team
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
The best shooter in college basketball will, in fact, stay in college basketball — and Kentucky is ready to make its final push.
Iowa State star Milan Momcilovic has withdrawn from the 2026 NBA Draft and will play somewhere at his current level in 2026-27. That’s not expected to be back in Ames, as Cyclone coach T.J. Otzelberger made clear, saying that if the 6-8 forward doesn’t make the jump to the pros, “it’s important that he’s able to find a landing spot at a college that fits what he’s looking for.”
Could Lexington be that final destination? The perimeter sniper already said he’s got respect for the Wildcats and Mark Pope, watching his programs closely since his time at BYU when they competed against each other in the Big 12.
In his eyes, he could be the piece Kentucky was missing this past season in the program’s Round of 32 exit, led by Momcilovic’s 20 points and five rebounds in the Cyclones’ 82-63 victory in St. Louis.
“I think Kentucky would be a good fit,” Momcilovic told the Herald-Leader’s Ben Roberts last week at the NBA Draft Combine. “I obviously went against Pope at BYU his first year (in the Big 12), and I loved how his team played. I think we went 1-1 against them, but they killed us at their place, because they fly the ball up the court and shoot 3s. I really like the way they play.
“And obviously, Kentucky last year, he didn’t have enough shooters around him to really coach, I feel like, the way he wanted. But I think — if I were to choose Kentucky — that would be a good fit for me. I feel like I’d be a great player for him, and he’d be a good coach for me.”
Momcilovic averaged a career-high 16.9 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.0 assists in 30.5 minutes per game while shooting 50.6 percent from the field, 48.7 percent from three and 87.8 percent at the line. He knocked down 260 3-pointers, good for 3.7 makes on 7.5 attempts per contest.
The former four-star recruit has been Kentucky’s dream portal target all offseason. Now, he’s officially a free agent, pulling out of the draft ahead of the withdrawal deadline.
On Tuesday, head coach Mark Pope revealed that there will likely be no summer trip for the 2026-27 Wildcats.
“We’re probably a lean towards not going right now,” Pope told Darrell Bird of Cats Pause.
The NCAA recently adopted a proposal that will allow schools to take summer tours every year after the rules previously limited schools to one trip every four years. Even if it ended up being somewhere close by, this would’ve been a great experience for the Cats to get some exhibition games in, especially with the roster overhaul they’re going through.
Oh well. The good news is UK will still have plenty of summer practices to develop and build chemistry.
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